. >> matt regan is the vice president of policy at bay area council. explain to people a little bit about what the council does. >> thank you, cheryl. >> the bay area council is an organization comprised the bay area's leading business figures, ceos from the largest employers and we work on issues of public policy. our objective is to maintain the bay area as the best place in the world to live and work. we work on issues like transportation, health care and the environment. >> i wouldn't expect that childhood development as a priority but this is a great opportunity, right? >> it doesn't seem like a natural fit for a business organization to be focusing so much attention on, but we've studied a lot of research and actually commissioned a research report of our own several years ago that shows that investing in early education is perhaps the best dollar that the state of california make an investment in. the returns on those investments are high as 17 to 1. >> wow. >> depending on the demographic of the child that you make the investment in. the highes

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get to the point where we might be .ble to profit >> "street smart" with trish regan comes up at the top of the hour. mattand he joins me now with a preview leading off about the islamic state. about what hek thinks the u.s. should be doing as far as surveillance of isis in syria, as far as our communication or lack thereof, with opponents to isis, which also happen to be opponents to the u.s.. we are in a sticky situation. discussione a heavy and we will move on and talk about motorcycles. is a brand aycles lot of companies tried and failed to revive in the last 50 years, 100 years. polaris seems to be doing it now with a lot of success. motorcycles magazine, i was in a presentation and they elected this the best two motorcycles. >> all right. breaking news, we're hearing word that apple suppliers are prepared to make the largest ever ipad. people are saying apple is said to prepare a new 12.9 inch ipad for early 2015 release. we will have more on this story and matt will have more coming up. street smart at the top of the hour. another check of the markets after the break. ♪ >> that does it for this edi